Sitchock, Michael (Mickey)

Michael (Mickey), son of Atara and Moshe, was born on December 20, 1944, in Givat Brenner, where he graduated from high school in the agriculture. The love of man, the love of the land, and above all devotion to his kibbutz, his home and his family. His personal example contributed quite a bit to kibbutz and movement education in the brigade. Alongside his studies and social activities, he worked from an early age in the fruit tree garden and found great satisfaction in the work. He devoted himself to work as much as anything else, and he held it responsible even when he was a young boy. After completing his studies, he was recruited for a year of service in the secretariat of the Hakibbutz Hameuhad division. In this capacity he served as coordinator of the central region. Michael was drafted into the IDF in November 1964 and was assigned to the Armored Corps, where he received a tank commander’s course, a course for officers of the Armored Corps, a course for armored officers and an anti-tank course. But his friends and subordinates, to whom he was an exemplary example, loved and admired him, and was awarded the “Six Day War Award”. For several months he was among those serving in the permanent army. And his devotion to work was a good thing, and he was often given a slightly sarcastic smile, and his attitude toward the work was serious and serious, and he had extreme self-discipline Michael was a kibbutznik who was far from compromise, a man of principles and honest, but it was pleasant to work with him and it was pleasant to be with him, just as he knew how to invest his whole life in work, In the fall of 1970, he married Mimi, a daughter of Givat Brenner, and they established their home in their home, and in the summer of 1971 her eldest daughter Rotem was born and a year later, In 1972, Dikla was born. They lived the happy life of a young family in its early days. On Yom Kippur 1973, during his family time, Michael was conscripted and sent to Sinai on October 8, 1973, near the Firdan Bridge, while he was commanding a tank division, hit by a missile and was killed on the spot. He was later found dead and was buried in the cemetery at Givat Brenner, leaving behind a wife and two daughters, a father who died in the meantime, mother, brother and sister.